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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Confirmation of Project 2025 Architect as Trump’s OMB Director
For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 6, 2025
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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Confirmation of Project 2025 Architect as Trump’s OMB Director
Washington, DC — Today, Senate Republicans confirmed Russ Vought, a key architect of the Project 2025 conservative policy agenda, as Trump’s director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought is an anti-abortion extremist. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee, Vought reaffirmed his support for the “abolition” of abortion, without exceptions. Vought has supported defunding Planned Parenthood and pushed numerous policies to restrict reproductive freedom during his first stint at OMB. As director of OMB, Vought will once again oversee the President’s budget and the administrative processes to implement Trump’s anti-abortion agenda and the policies outlined in Project 2025. Even prior to Vought’s confirmation, we have seen Trump weaponize OMB to destabilize the government and undermine access to critical services, including reproductive health care.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Senate Republicans just confirmed a Project 2025 author who has unabashedly embraced a nationwide abortion ban, handing him a platform to exploit the federal budget to bring his vision to life. Trump ran scared of his association with Project 2025 on the campaign trail, but he installed a key player in his cabinet who is eager to set that plan into motion. Trump and Senate Republicans know exactly what they are doing—and voters see it, too. We won’t forget it at the ballot box.”
On the campaign trail, Trump attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, which would effectively ban abortion nationwide and threaten our democracy, but now he has a key architect of that plan as part of his cabinet. Project 2025 outlines numerous ways for a second Trump administration to further decimate reproductive freedom:
- It directs agencies to willfully misinterpret and misuse the antiquated Comstock Act to block access to both abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortion care. This could effectively ban abortion across the country—with or without the support of Congress and the courts.
- The plan calls for the administration to stop enforcing a federal law requiring hospitals to provide patients with emergency care, including emergency abortion care. This would force countless more people to endure the tragic and life-threatening situations we’ve already heard so many horror stories about.
- The plan includes language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception. This so-called “personhood” language could ban abortion, some forms of birth control, and assisted fertility treatments like IVF.
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.
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Reafirmación de nuestro compromiso con los derechos reproductivos.
“Reproductive Freedom for All” reafirma su dedicación a proteger y promover los derechos reproductivos a nivel federal y estatal. Aunque la organización ganó visibilidad durante el reciente ciclo electoral, nuestra misión se extiende mucho más allá de las elecciones, debido a la postura extremista y restrictiva de la administración Trump-Vance sobre el aborto, estamos decididos a fortalcer nuestro compromiso para garantizar el acceso equitativo a la atención médica reproductiva, especialmente para las comunidades marginadas.